The priority of the organization is to check the conditions of detention and treatment of prisoners of war, prevent disappearance and maintain their connection with their families.
Soldiers were evacuated from Azovstal / photo from UNIAN
Information about quantity and personal data withdrawn from Azovstal Ukrainian servicemen, which the International Committee of the Red Cross has or will have at its disposal, will remain confidential and will not be publicly disclosed.
About it “Ukrinform“said the representative of the organization Mirella Khodeyb, answering the question of how many Ukrainian soldiers withdrawn from Azovstal, including the wounded, have now been registered by the ICRC, and whether their lists will be published.
“This information is confidential. Our priority is to verify the conditions of detention and treatment of prisoners of war, prevent disappearances and maintain their connection with their families. But we will not publish lists or names of people we have visited or those we will visit in the future” , – said the representative of the ICRC.
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She added that the registration of prisoners of war by the organization allows them “to feel protected at least from the risk of disappearing without a trace.”
Asked if family members of servicemen evacuated from Azovstal could find out from the ICRC whether they were registered by the organization, Mirella Hodeib said that families looking for information about missing relatives can contact the ICRC’s Central Tracing Agency.
Recall that on May 17, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the beginning of rescue operations defenders of Mariupol blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant.
According to the MOU, on May 16, 53 seriously wounded were evacuated from Azovstal to a medical facility in Novoazovsk. Another 211 people were taken to Olenevka through the humanitarian corridor.
On May 18, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, said that the process of evacuating the defenders of Azovstal continues and is complicated.
